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Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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It costs the equivalent of 2 years of cloud GPU H100s at current prices. Edit: Sorry fucked up my math. I wanted to do 40x52x4, $4/hr being the cloud compute price but that us actually $8300, so it is actually equivalent to about 4.5 months of cloud compute. 40 hours because I presume that this will only be used for prototyping and debugging, i.e during office hours.

what are current h100 price ? lowest i have seen is only 0.99 per hour

and 2 years have 17520 hours.

Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

#32
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I were NVidia, I would be throwing everything I could at making entertainment experiences that need one of these to run... I mean, this is awfully close to being "Her" in a box, right?

I feel like a lot of people miss that Her was a dystopian future, not an ideal to hit. Also, it’s $3000. For that you could buy subscriptions to OpenAI etc and have the dystopian partner everywhere you go.

The dystopian overton window has shifted, didn't you know, moral ambiguity is a win now? :) Tesla was right.

Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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I feel this is bigger than the 5x series GPUs. Given the craze around AI/LLMs, this can also potentially eat into Apple’s slice of the enthusiast AI dev segment once the M4 Max/Ultra Mac minis are released. I sure wished I held some Nvidia stocks, they seem to be doing everything right in the last few years!

it eats into all NVDA consumer-facing clients no? I can see why openai and etc are looking for alternative hardware solution to train their next model.

Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

#34

Nvidia releases a Linux desktop supercomputer that's better price/performance wise than anything Wintel is doing and their whole new software stack will only run on WSL2. They aren't porting to Win32. Wow, it may actually be the year of Linux on the Desktop.

Never underestimate the open source world's power to create a crappy desktop experience.

Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

#36

Nvidia releases a Linux desktop supercomputer that's better price/performance wise than anything Wintel is doing and their whole new software stack will only run on WSL2. They aren't porting to Win32. Wow, it may actually be the year of Linux on the Desktop.

Not sure how to judge better price/perf. I wouldn't expect 20 Neoverse N2 cores to do particularly well vs 16 zen5 cores. The GPU side looks promising, but they aren't mentioning memory bandwidth, configuration, spec, or performance.

Did see vague claims of "starting at $3k", max 4TB nvme, and max 128GB ram.

I'd expect AMD Strix Halo (AI Max plus 395) to be reasonably competitive.

Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

#37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does it say they won't be supporting Win32?

Here he says that in order for the cloud and the PC to be compatible, he's going to only support WSL2, the Windows subsystem for Linux which is a Linux API on top of Windows. Here's a link to the part of the keynote where he says this: https://youtu.be/MC7L_EWylb0?t=7259

"Linux API on top of Windows" is an interesting way to describe a virtual machine.

Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does it say they won't be supporting Win32?

Here he says that in order for the cloud and the PC to be compatible, he's going to only support WSL2, the Windows subsystem for Linux which is a Linux API on top of Windows. Here's a link to the part of the keynote where he says this: https://youtu.be/MC7L_EWylb0?t=7259

The keynote mentioned that it could be used as a Linux workstation.

Re: Nvidia's Project Digits is a 'personal AI supercomputer'

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here he says that in order for the cloud and the PC to be compatible, he's going to only support WSL2, the Windows subsystem for Linux which is a Linux API on top of Windows. Here's a link to the part of the keynote where he says this: https://youtu.be/MC7L_EWylb0?t=7259

"Linux API on top of Windows" is an interesting way to describe a virtual machine.

That’s more like WSL1, yes.
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